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A Greek play that takes place after the Greeks have destroyed Troy. The play revolves around the private sufferings of these women are as follows Hecuba is taken as a slave by Odysseus, Andromache who has just lost her little son to the Greeks is forced to be Neoptolemus's concubine, and Agamemnon goes for Cassandra though he knows from her prophecy that he is going to die. The play explores grief, war, and human suffering. -
Catastrophe had, to speak of, a profound effect on the European population, thereby facing profound changes in social terms. Entire communities disappeared, family ties got severed, and fear was present in the life of the people who were trying to come to terms with such a large number of deaths. This disaster in history tells us about man’s weakness against nature and the huge emotional and social impact of death on the community. -
Othello is a tragedy of a valiant Venetian general who is deceitfully led by his vile subordinate Iago to think that his devoted wife Desdemona is disloyal, which leads to a chain of events where Othello's increasing jealousy turns into distrust, violence, and loss for all in the end. -
Through this late self-portrait, Rembrandt gives the world a view of an old, contemplating man. The painting is very different from the perfected portraits in the sense that the painting has emotional burden and personal struggles. The tragedy is soft and inside, it shows the anguish of getting old, losing, and dying instead of the suffering being loud and violent. -
Don Giovanni is a spectacular opera that recounts the story of a debauched nobleman whose sinful conduct finally brings him to hell. The despair of the tale is rooted in the offering of sinner's punishment through the lenses of desire and reluctance to confess the sin. Showing willingness to fall into sin, through music and drama, Mozart portrayed the tragedy of moral decay, describing how pride and overindulgence will invariably bring about one's downfall. -
This artwork shows the shooting of Spanish peasants by French troops in the course of the war. Goya effectively conveys the horror, panic, and unfairness of the situation of the wronged victims to the spectators in a very non-heroic way. The calamity is in the harsh truth of bloodshed that was cast on the lives of common people, thus, suffering becomes the main theme of the artist's work. -
The Great Famine in Ireland was the main cause of death of more than a million people, and it was based largely on the emigration and disease which, in turn, were the major consequences of the famine. The catastrophe was partly due to the failure of the crops but mainly to the political neglect and inequities in the distribution of resources. The event exposes the fact that human decisions are often the main reason why suffering is more severe, thus the tragedy being both natural and social. -
Moby-Dick is a disastrous novel of obsession, revenge, and self-destruction where the white whale is the main reason for Captain Ahab's ruining in every aspect of his life.Ahab is unable to surrender his obsession, which is a clear-cut case of how the person can be completely overtaken by the obsession and eventually the inevitable downfall. The novel, in general, investigates through the tragedy of Ahab the world-wide phenomena of the tragic results of uncontrolled ambition. -
Through the use of distorted figures and bright color, The Scream shows in a very visual manner the feelings of anxiety, despair, and emotional pain. The painting does not illustrate a particular incident but rather presents a psychological internal tragedy. It shows the world-wide feeling of fear and emotional pain due to existence which makes the tragedy very personal and at the same time not bound by time. -
The “St. Louis Blues” allows the audience to feel the singer's deep sorrow, the bitterness of love and the pain of being neglected with the help of fabulous blues vocals. The tragedy is very close and deeply felt, revolving around the themes of love lost and inner distress, not of physical ruin. The piece portrays the coexistence of tragedy with common emotional situations and how through music an individual's grief is expressed. -
The Hindenburg Disaster (Photograph) depicts the instantaneous, terrifying incident when the German airship Hindenburg caught fire while landing in New Jersey in 1937. The picture, inferring the occurrence, seen with people’s eyes, thehearing of a modern technological disaster, and thus, gaining the status of one of the most famous images of the 20th century, shows tragedy, loss of lives, and shock all at once. -
The atomic bomb explosion in Hiroshima caused tremendous loss of civilian lives and extremely severe suffering for a long time afterward. This disaster is a clear demonstration of the modern warfare power to an incredible extent and the moral dilemmas raised by the technology. Moreover, it symbolizes the human ability to cause irreparable destruction. -
Psycho is a psychological thriller that goes deep into the subjects of insanity, brutality, and splitted personality. The sick minds and unexpected murder expose the shadowy side of the ordinary world. The picture depicts the tragedy as the mental disintegration instead of the divine destiny, thus stressing the inner ruin. -
The artist tackles the issues of war, injustice, and social suffering across a period of unrest and politics. The main drawback has been the collective human sufferings from violence, inequality, and hopelessness. Gaye's music in the midst of social crisis is regarded as a vigorous release of emotions rather than just the manifestation of the feelings of one person and the suffering of all mankind being indicated. -
Schindler's List represents the Holocaust with the help of the individual accounts of the survivors and victims. The catastrophe is depicted as both a personal and a societal one, revealing the barbarity of the extermination and the ephemeral quality of human existence. The motion picture is a reminder of the ethical duty that must be exercised in every situation, even in the case of suffering that is beyond imagination.